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Dombey and Son

CHAPTER 9
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You haven't eaten any breakfast.

I shall bring a doctor to you, if you go on like this.' 'He can't give me what I want, my boy,' said Uncle Sol.

'At least he is in good practice if he can--and then he wouldn't.' 'What is it, Uncle?
Customers ?' 'Ay,' returned Solomon, with a sigh.

'Customers would do.' 'Confound it, Uncle!' said Walter, putting down his breakfast cup with a clatter, and striking his hand on the table: 'when I see the people going up and down the street in shoals all day, and passing and re-passing the shop every minute, by scores, I feel half tempted to rush out, collar somebody, bring him in, and make him buy fifty pounds' worth of instruments for ready money.

What are you looking in at the door for?
--' continued Walter, apostrophizing an old gentleman with a powdered head (inaudibly to him of course), who was staring at a ship's telescope with all his might and main.


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